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This was the scene I was met with this morning at my local Target on my way to work. Target has reduced two colums of Justice League Unlimited and DC Infinte Heroes (8 pegs) into one column (2 pegs for each, 4 total) and in the remaning space has added 8 pegs of Marvel Universe 3.75" Fury Files figures. 3.75" Marvel and DC figures hanging side by side.

The irony of me fonding DCIH for $2.77 each is that I have zero interest in collecting the line, so I didn’t even bother to look at which characters they had. I was getting a Wolverine figure for a friend of mine and was kind of startled that I was paying $8.99 for that and all those DC figures were $2.77.

I don’t know about that tekwych. I think a number of people are willing to pay the extra money for the accessories, the articulation, the ability to get Marvel characters in 3.75 inch format. DC’s reveals for upcoming figures are mostly repaints and the like, or re-releases of figures they’ve already put out in 3-packs, while Marvel gets the luxury of being the “fresh new thing”.

I’m surprised at how quickly the Wolverine figures, at the same price as Marvel Universe, have been going off shelves near me. The movie’s not even out yet and I’m seeing a lot of empty pegs, or in some cases a few stores stuck with a few left over brown costume Wolverines.

Yeah, I’ve been going bonkers on the forums about the Fury Files invading the DC product at Target. I’m not convinced that the Targets that do it this way are correct. Some people are reporting that the DC pegs are left alone, and had the Fury Files figures set alongside of them.

How do you think Mattel feels about half of their retail space for JLU and Infinite Heroes getting cut in half? It’s not difficult at all to grab four additional peg hooks from the backroom and create the space instead of squatting on another’s.

DC collectors don’t need yet another Target roadblock to overcome in order to collect Mattel product.

On a side note, I wish that ALL of Hasbro’s action figure prices would come back down to Earth. Eight bucks for any single figure is too much. $5.99, maybe $6.99 but not eight bucks. Too much.

They should hire me to go around and handle their business at local stores. I could definitely shape up my local stores. I have one Walmart that only carries Dark Knight movie figures. How terrible is that?

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About Me:

Julius Marx was know the world over for 10 years as the title character in the long running TV cop-on-the-edge show “Hockuly!” Now he writes about and takes pictures of toys and attempts to put all his weird knowledge to work for him. He has been collecting toys his entire life.